As it stands, both Piped and Invidious are dead.
Because od that, I almost completely stopped watching youtube but l’d still sometimes like to check what the people I follow posted (I used to do that via Piped).
Are there any new ways of following people without actually using Google? I’m aware of the tools that download new videos as they come out but I’m more interested in just “subscribing”, kinda like RSS?
Ideally it would be on iOS
Edit: I found it, “Unwatched” on iOS is awesome, thanks to [email protected]
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I was going to recommend android apps until I saw iOS. I don’t know anyones that let you keep a local subscription like newpipe does without needing to sideload. So if there are I’d be interested.
I just use Newpipe
However, Piped and Invidious are not dead. YouTube is trying really hard to kill them but they still work somewhat. It is a cat and mouse game.
They’re effectively dead. I haven’t ever found a single instance that works for more than a few days in years, despite people constantly recommending them.
Probably because people self-host them. I have an invidious instance self-hosted and use clipious on android to watch videos on it. Feels super modern and have pretty much no issues. Public instances usually don’t work because of datacenter ips get blocked by YouTube.
Anything work for iOS? I was using a side loaded app but it recently stopped working.
Brave.
I’ve been running this for my whole family and friends for years at this point. Way better than any browser based solution.
I believe that YouTube supports RSS. I haven’t used it in years, but gPodder allowed subscribing to channels.
Ah, yeah. From this post:
- Go to the YouTube channel page.
- Click more for the About box.
- Scroll down to click Share channel. Choose Copy channel ID.
- Get the feed from
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=plus that channel ID from the previous step.
From there, something (like a podcast client) needs to grab the video.
Otherwise, I’ve been using Tartube to download to my media server, which is not great but fine, except for needing to delete the lock file when it (or the computer) crashes, and the fact that the media server hasn’t the foggiest idea of how to organize the “episodes.”
Thanks for this! It actually works with a regular RSS reader, nice!
Yeah, except there’s no video link.
I had to write https://github.com/t184256/podcastify / https://github.com/t184256/yousable to actually get videos. Now, when I’ve done that, Bob’s my uncle. Actually usable YouTube with automatic predownloading, local playback and no ads.
piped.video still works for me: subscriptions, categories, comments. Watching is MPV
deleted by creator
PipePipe has even more sources.
I like that pipepipe provides an option to use a Google account fall back for videos that are age verified, since those don’t work anymore without an account.
And they got a content filter update too so can block channels and keywords.
I thought I was the only one.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Pump these numbers up brotha
I was using freshrss which can grab the rad feed for a channel, but I’ve moved to tube archivist with a Jellyfin plugin. Now they are all predownloaded and just show up on my tv via Jellyfin app.
It’s a way better way to keep track of what you want to watch.
Just curious if there’s a setting in any of those applications that removes downloaded videos which have been watched at least once, and after x amount of time? It’s sort of like a watch list. If watched, I don’t want to keep the video. But if I do, I can add it to a playlist and let PinchFlat download it for archive.
Deleting after x days is possible with Pinchflat, iirc.
I don’t think it checks if the video is watched in Jellyfin.
https://github.com/alexta69/metube and Plex
i “subscribe” via rss in freshrss, just use the normal youtube.com on desktop and mobile browser. StoptheMadness on iOS to strip ads
Freetube and
mpv(usesyt-dlpin the background) work well for me 🤷I love freetube for my android and Linux PCs.
Freetube works well on windows and macos too
Self hosted Invidious still works
I’m using News Explorer for my RSS feeds which also supports subscribing to YouTube channels. In the newer versions it even pulls the comments from YT.
As others have said, invidious is not dead, and they’re working on factoring out the part that interfaces with YouTube itself, so that updates to react to changes in YouTube will be able to be implemented much faster.
Grayjay by FUTO has been working well for me
Grayjay started shitting the bed on me recently (Android via Samsung and Graphene, and on Desktop Linux/Windows) unless I disable vpn.
Even with Agent andDNS whitelisting for the apps.
A bit of a bummer after recently donating.
That’s not GrayJay. That’s YT. They’ve started blocking access to users who use a VPN without logging in.
God forbid they don’t know everything about you.
Edit: response from FUTO
Seems to be related to UMP streams and we have issue opened for it and it’s top priority for us to fix this now. It is however very complex so it takes time to fix it but at least we figured out why it is happening and once it is fixed it should be a smooth experience on Youtube at least for a while until they change something else on their backend…
Aye, that was my suspicion. Really awesome to be stripped of options for privacy so they can suck down that data.
Yt-dlp still works thankfully.
Forgot about that one but it’s only on Android (mobile-wise)
Oh, I wasn’t sure what platform you needed. For iOS, yeah I have no idea. For anyone else that comes across this though, Grayjay also has a desktop app now
Sorry to be the bearer of good news, but you’re wrong…
yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all <url>is the way. It turns playlist link into nicely named, curated video files awaiting to played by a regular video playerDoes “all” remove every type of segment? Because that seems excessive for most people, there is a lot of filler/etc sections that are over-zealously tagged.
That seems like it would screw the creators more than YouTube.
Possibly, but for how ad laiden YT has become it’s a path I’m willing to take.
